The castrating-woman trope predated and was not unique to Moynihan

Evidence

The notion that modern women were emasculating men had its origin not in the conflict between black women and black men over sex-role patterns but in the overall conflict in American society over the issue of sex roles. Women as castrator was an image first evoked not in reference to black women and certainly not by Daniel Moynihan; it was popularized by certain psychoanalysts who had their heyday in the 50s. They imposed upon the consciousness of the American public the notion that any career woman, any woman who competed with men, was envious of male power and was likely to be a castrating bitch. — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 524

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to broader feminist critiques of postwar psychoanalysis pathologizing working women. — connects to: The ‘castrating woman’ myth originated with 1950s psychoanalysts, not Moynihan; Sexist ideology, not evidence, grounded Moynihan’s matriarchy thesis

Related

• The ‘castrating woman’ myth originated with 1950s psychoanalysts, not Moynihan (similarity 0.93)
• Sexist ideology, not evidence, grounded Moynihan’s matriarchy thesis (similarity 0.86)
• Black men adopted Moynihan’s emasculation and matriarchy myths to justify misogyny. (similarity 0.85)
• The Moynihan report endorsed military violence as a cure for black emasculation (similarity 0.80)
• Slavery-era myths branded black women masculinized to defend patriarchal ideology. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• The ‘castrating woman’ myth originated with 1950s psychoanalysts, not Moynihan #corroborates (0.90)
• Sexist ideology, not evidence, grounded Moynihan’s matriarchy thesis #corroborates (0.60)